"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > >>>>> "John" == John W Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Oddly enough, unlike most other operators in Perl, >> has only one use, > John> number 1 above. > > Well, some people might consider open FOO, ">>bar" to be another "use" > of ">>".
Oh come on Randal! :-) Does that mean that printf('%s', 'string') is another use of the % operator, or that pack('a*', 'string') is another use of the * operator, or that $a = 'destructively' is another use of the tr, y, s, v and uc operators? John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>